Phantasy Star Online - The Social Network: How In Game Screenshots Changed Everything
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- One often forgotten feature of Phantasy Star Online is the built in screen capture function. SEGA, in a stroke of 1999 genius, planned for us all to take photos of our explorations and upload them to a forums, where we could keep people in the loop with our adventures. No capture card needed! All from our living rooms. That's... insane for 1999.
This was a big hit in Japan, and slowly made it's way over here. Many third party image hosts opened up solely to process Phantasy Star Online Dreamcast and Gamecube screen shots. People had stories all over the web, documenting their journeys. It ended up turning into, well, a social media event, with everyone hosting their screenshots and talking about their adventures.
So remember this next time you struggle with getting your images from your Nintendo Switch or PS5... The Dreamcast had a system for internal screen capture, uploading, and posting to the world, back in 2001.
There were some amazingly forward-thinking people at Sega back then
also, lol at 'europeen' at 3:03
If I knew how to help I would, but I never played PSO nor do I know how the Dreamcast even was back then, I do own one now but never did as a child.
Wow I didn't know this was a thing, makes sense seeing old screen shots kicking around online but it's crazy there is no image converter just for offline screenshot saves o3o !! Saw a post online from 2021 of someone asking about it just to be told your "better off using your phone" completely missing the point . This is a cool feature and definitely ahead of its time.
Props for Tactics Ogre music 😊🎉
Loved doing this on the Gamecube version! (loramaru, never forget). PSO was revolutionary in so many ways. How many other console games had screenshot captures and a built-in basic phrase translator in the early 2000s? Great video and always good to see people keeping PSO alive!
I recently got my 'cube version back online.
Damn I had no idea this existed! I wish I did :( I was playing during the OG release too.
Yeah, before you even said it I was kinda already guessing the image would take the entire VMU to store, I mean today images are kinda tiny, but back then even a simple screenshot would take alot of space, especially on such a tiny storage unit like a VMU.
Ohh wow!!! I never knew this feature, unfortunately!
I used to play PSO EP 1&2 on the Gamecube back in the day. Unfortunately 95% of my Nintendo collection is gone with the wind :(. I have however over the years been playing on PC starting with Blue Burst waaay back, and some other servers just a few years back. So there's still a community going on ^^
I think that's my first time seeing footage of a Grass Assassin in Forest 1. Guess that was just in the beta copy they used for the recordings or something?
Screenshot is so cool and you only recognise their value after years and years. I wish I still had my old World of Warcraft screenshots, but sadly they died along with an old PC.
This is great. I also play PSO.
Amazing
Great video!! I had no idea about taking screenshots on the Dreamcast
Now I can die knowing this random fact that u can take screenshots in PSO
Algo doing it's work. Sick video :)
nice message to the world!
Kind of surprised someone hasn't just found a way to emulate this game on PC by now.
They have, you can play it using Dolphin.
Oh you can definitely emulate the console versions and play on custom servers alongside people using the real consoles. Most people playing on PC are better off just playing Blue Burst though.
@beardalaxy I recently got my Gamecube version back online.
There's dreamcast emulators that can connect online, and a literal pc port of the game called blue burst.
I want to take screenshots and back them up till someone makes a tool for this. Do you know if transferring them from the VMU to an SD card adapter over the serial port works?
you could do what!? Never knew that!
i used to play this game a lot when i was younger on both DC and PC, just a pity PSO2 is so much of a cash grab with everything that it try's to sell you like more bank space, more invent space, selling on the AH, trading other people are stuff they try and sell you and if you play it you need that bank space and invent space...
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Didn’t n64 have online first?
the 64DD had online capabilities, but that was in 1999. the dreamcast came out in 1998. additionally you couldnt play games online with the 64DD
if you want to get real technical about it, the sega saturn had sega net link in 1996, but you couldnt play games through that either
@@forteprotze I thought a few games could be played P2P. I guess that doesn't quite count as online in the typical sense though.
@@forteprotze Also technically the Sega Genesis and SNES had online before even that thanks to XBand.